Thanks for the clarification Marc.
Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Doug Kohlert wrote:
>
>> Anne may be correct to state that document/literal is the preferred
>> mode; however WS-I BP 1.0 requires support for rpc/literal. Given
>> that she stated that .Net and Axis do not support rpc/literal, I
>> assume that means they do not support WS-I BP 1.0. Is this true, I
>> find that hard
>> to believe. Anyone know?
>>
> WS-I only defines conformance in terms of services and artifacts
> (WSDL descriptions, SOAP messages etc) not platforms or tools. This
> means that a tool can claim WS-I conformance provided it allows
> development of WS-I compliant services. So, e.g., you can use .Net to
> create a WS-I compliant service described by an rpc/literal WSDL by
> rewriting the WSDL as doc/literal and using the .Net tools on that
> instead. Not very convenient, but its enough to allow a claim of
> conformance.
>
> Marc.
>
>> Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> One thing that causes a lot of confusion is that SOAP and WSDL
>>> enable a layer of abstraction between the application programming
>>> model (RMI-like versus JMS-like) and what actually goes on the wire
>>> (RPC versus Document style message formats).
>>>
>>> Let me make this absolutely clear: you can use an RMI-style
>>> programming interface in Java and have it automatically marshal the
>>> parameters for you into a document-style message.
>>>
>>> As far as I'm concerned, the RPC style is a mistake from the past
>>> -- one that we should bury and leave behind us. RPC/literal should
>>> be avoided even more than RPC/encoded. Most SOAP implementations
>>> -- including the two most popular implementations (.NET and Apache
>>> Axis) do not support RPC/literal. The RPC programming convention
>>> is optional in SOAP 1.2. Even fewer implementations will support
>>> RPC style in the future.
>>>
>>> The folks designing the JAX-RPC RI need to understand this fact.
>>> JAX-RPC 2.0 should be focused 100% on supporting document/literal.
>>> Just forget about RPC style.
>>>
>>> A little history: when SOAP was first defined, W3C had not yet
>>> completed the XML Schema type system, so the SOAP authors needed to
>>> define their own type system. Hence SOAP encoding. Keep in mind,
>>> though, that SOAP encoding is not a complete type system -- it is
>>> horribly underspecified and is the source of many interoperability
>>> issues. Also -- the original intention behind SOAP was to create a
>>> very lightweight RPC mechanism, and it depended on the encoding
>>> system to marshal the data -- but that was before the definition of
>>> WSDL.
>>>
>>> WSDL changed everything. WSDL fully describes the service
>>> interface. It provides a compiler/runtime generator everything it
>>> needs to marshal and unmarshal messages. There's absolutely no need
>>> to use the RPC convention. The RPC convention is *bad* because
>>> there's no schema for the message on the wire. That means that you
>>> can't validate the message. And RPC style supplies no added value
>>> over document style.
>>>
>>> If you want to use an RMI style programming model, then you should
>>> use the "wrapped" convention. The "wrapped" convention requires
>>> that you define a wrapper element for your parameters. The name of
>>> the wrapper element must be the same as the operation name. Your
>>> <wsdl:message> defintion should contain one part, and this
>>> <wsdl:part> should reference the wrapper element. When you compile
>>> this WSDL description, it should generate an interface that allows
>>> you to invoke the service just like RMI.
>>>
>>> At least that's how most JAX-RPC implementations work.
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>
>>> At 06:55 PM 3/19/2004, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> The question "why would you want to use rpc/encoded" is beginning
>>>> to resonate with me. I definitely want to avoid it, it has made
>>>> life hard. The "rpc" part of jax-rpc is what confused me. It
>>>> made me think in terms of rpc style operations.
>>>>
>>>> It finally struck me that document / literal is what I want to do,
>>>> I am not sure how. I need to pass an xml document to my service
>>>> and the service needs to return a different xml along with a byte
>>>> []. The document / literal style looks like it handles the xml in
>>>> and xml out part, but I then need to find someway to make the
>>>> byte[] an attachment. My client uses DII and its not obvious to
>>>> me how to implement this scenario using DII. Am I right that
>>>> document / literal gets me closer to what I need?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -SP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doug's right in that if you want to use SOAP encoding, you need to
>>>> use a
>>>> SOAP encoding array type.
>>>>
>>>> Please note, though, that this is a valid schema structure, and
>>>> this is how
>>>> you should define an array when using literal encoding.
>>>>
>>>> If you can't change your schema, then you must use literal
>>>> encoding. For
>>>> best interoperability, you should use doc/literal.
>>>>
>>>> My question is why would you want to use rpc/encoded. It is
>>>> something to avoid.
>>>>
>>>> Anne
>>>>
>>>> At 04:27 PM 3/19/2004, you wrote:
>>>> >Christof,
>>>> >Where did you get this WSDL from? I am not sure it is valid. I
>>>> am pretty
>>>> >sure that soap encoding requires the use of soap-encoded
>>>> arrays.. There
>>>> >is no work around for this type of WSDL.
>>>> >
>>>> >Christof Strack wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>Hi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >>I build a web service which uses as a value type the following
>>>> type:
>>>> >> <xsd:complexType name="TroubleTicketValueType">
>>>> >> <xsd:sequence>
>>>> >> <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string"
>>>> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>>>> >> </xsd:sequence>
>>>> >> </xsd:complexType>
>>>> >>When I process this with wscompile (rpc/encoded) I get an error
>>>> message
>>>> >>that this type is not supported.
>>>> >> From the mailing list I've seen one option is to convert the
>>>> sequence to
>>>> >> an array. This is not an option for me since the schema has to
>>>> stay
>>>> >> fixed (compatability).
>>>> >>What other options do I have? Is it possible to use JAXB
>>>> together with
>>>> >>JAX-RPC but still use rpc/encoded style?
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Regards Christof
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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